Military military is welcome to LA, say the leaders of California of GOP

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When is it good for the president to use civilian military forces in a country regarding their governor’s objections?

When this governor is Gavin Newm, say California Republican leaders.

In a rare move, President Donald Trump canceled Newsom and local leaders in sending 4,000 National Guard members and 700 active Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests against the implementation of president immigration.

California is It disputes Trump’s order in the federal court. While the president claims he has the sole body to unleash the military, legal scientists and judges have warned that this move is at risk of interfering with the state sovereignty and to tilt the constitutional balance of the forces between the federal and the state government.

But most Republican legislators in California who have fiercely opposed. “government“I would not say where Trump’s military intervention in Los Angeles.

Calmatters asked all 29 Republican legislators in the state legislative body whether they support the unfolding of Trump’s army. Only six answers and everyone had come to Trump.

Democrats came it, according to these legislators, as their indulgent immigration and crime policies – including a State Law on Sanctuary for 2017 This limits local cooperation with federal agents to apply immigration – forced Trump’s hand.

“This is the main reason for the riots and the violence we are witnessing this year,” State Saint. Marie Alvarado-gil of Modesto, said about the law of the sanctuary In video last weekS

State Republicans also took advantage of sporadic clashes with violence filmed in viral videos on social media, as evidence of Newsom and other democrats to resume violence. GOP legislators claim that therefore Trump had to intervene, although Local police had said they did not need help by Federal troops.

“What do you do when you have a governor who does not lead (s) do nothing for excitement and violence in your own country?” said the Republican leader of Assembly James Galachar Chico.

But will Republican legislators say the same if the Democratic President went down to the military on a red state over the head of his governor? Some said yes, as others bite their tongues, arguing that it should be judged on a case -by -case basis and refuse to entertain hypothetics.

“It depends on the situation,” Galagher told Calmatters. “What are the time when you can and when you can’t? This is what the court will decide.”

It is no surprise that state Republicans use the opportunity to hit Democrats on immigration and crime: these strategies have works for the minority party In the past. It is also a chance for them to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump, who has a definitive influence on the party.

But this is particularly disturbing when Republicans are in accordance with Trump in the course of canceling the state power that tears in the tissue of US ConstitutionEric Schixler said, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkli.

“If you think about what the” Framers “is worried about when they created the Constitution, it is exactly this kind of dynamic,” he said. “It is not an exaggeration to say that the nature of the political system of the United States has changed. And it has changed not only because of the power of the Trump as an individual, but it changes because of his parties. him. “

This equalization can cost Republicans in 2026, said Mike Madrid, a long -time GOP strategist and a vowel critic of Trump. Studies in recent weeks showed that Trump’s immigration policies and Los Angeles military deployment are Unpopular Among the Americans.

“I don’t think people already see this as an immigration problem. They see it the way the governor has asked what is a constitutional question, a federal question about a super -react, a matter of proper process,” Madrid said. “This puts Republicans on a very disturbing basis.”

California legislators of GOP: Trump “activated”

While Trump’s executive order told the troops to guard the federal staff and real estate, he and his administration also repeatedly suggest that the troops were there to crackingS Last week, US Interior Security Minister Christy Nobody even said the military was there to “free the city from the Socialists.”

Military presence has caused fear among legal experts and some law enforcement officers who claim that there is no legal position for the use of Trump’s power. The deployment of military forces of home protesters can also have a freezing effect Risk further the escalation of the situation and Create confusion among civiliansThey said.

Calmatters also turned to US representatives. David Valadao, the young Kim and Ken Calvert, three Republicans, who are likely to face fierce challenges from the Democrats in 2026. None of them answered.

Although acknowledging the sovereignty of California, some state republican deputies told Calmatters that Trump should intervene because of what they perceived as a lack of leadership from Newsom. They quoted videos with brick throwing, protesters and protesters on a moat-cockyle subjected to unfounded claims This paid the agitators put violence among the protesters – the claim that Trump made.

Assembly Jeff GonzalezThe Republican of Coachela and the only acting legislator, who is a retired Marine, would not initially say if the scale of Los Angeles’ protests justified federal intervention, saying that he did not have “confidential intelligence” to argue. He is also not committed to supporting the same actions if they come from another president, arguing that each situation is different.

But when a CalMatters reporter insisted on comments, Gonzalez cited videos of violence as an excuse for Trump’s deployment.

“When you have leaders who do not activate, someone has to activate and that has happened,” he said.

State Seni. Steven Choi Ervine told Calmatters that while he supports the rights of countries, when immigration agents are facing violence or intervention, “it is appropriate for federal authorities to defend both these agents and federal properties.”

Seni. Tony StricklandA former mayor of Huntington Beach has said he has a precedent for the federalization of the National Guard of California to quell the internal riots, citing the turmoil in 1992 in Los Angeles for the acquittal of police officers who killed black activist Rodney King.

But in this example, then President George H. Bush unfolded at the request of the then Republican governor Pete Wilson and the then democratic mayor Tom Bradley. The riots were also far more complicated, resulting in 63 deaths.

Strickland claims that deaths were avoided in Los Angeles just because Trump was sent to the military, echoing the president claim that the city would otherwise burn to the ground.

“Do you wait until 63 people die before you call them?” Strintland said.

Accusing the California Sanctuary Act

Republicans claim that the use of Trump’s military force is necessary because of the state legislation of the sanctuary in California, which has been supported in the federal courtS

Their logic goes like this: if the California police were more compounded by immigration and customs implementation, federal agents would not have to arrest immigrants on the streets, Californians would not be so understood and Trump should not unfold troops to protect these agents.

According to the current legislation, local law enforcement authorities may choose to alert the federal immigration authorities to the forthcoming release of a prisoner if They have been convicted of violent crimesS Senate Republican leader Brian Jonesfrom San Diego, failed this year to push a measure that would make the cooperation mandatoryS

It is the lack of cooperation in California that forces federal immigration agents to pursue “violent criminals” in public, Jones argued. He rejected arrests, such as a 4-year-old life-saving drug girl in Bakersfield as a “collateral”.

“When federal agents have to enter the neighborhoods and find those violent crimes to capture and report and persecute … There will be arrests for security and this is the country that the News News and the democratic leadership has created,” Jones told Calmatters.

Assembly Tom LakayA Republican from Palmdale, who has served in the California highway patrol for 28 years, said the law of the sanctuary “created all this fear and chaos”.

“What we see now is a situation where Supermajority has limited immigration management tools; creating a communication breakdown between local and federal law enforcement agencies and a vacuum that invites a more severe hand than Washington,” he said in a statement.

But Madrid said that the accusation of the tensions of the law of the sanctuary of the state was an “extremely weak” argument.

“If that was the case, it would be a situation long before,” he said. “It is deliberately deceptive of telling a very, very small part of the problem.”

While Madrid called the State Law on the Pachourk Sanctuary, he claims that immigration is a matter entirely “on the threshold of the federal government.” The Trump administration missed the opportunity to take advantage of the border, Madrid argued, noting that Trump helped last year Kill a bilateral legislative transaction over border security.

“What California has decided to do is say,” Well, if you won’t control borderline security and … Leave us as the biggest borderline country in the country to handle it, we will accommodate it.

Can support for troops cost Republicans?

Reference to Trump has its advantages. The president – the face of a growing populist party – can galvanize Republican voters and help legislators to cement their conservative base. Even like the president Approval evaluation slides among AmericansRepublican voters continue to show strong support for it.

But Republicans could lose a position, especially among Latin American voters, because of Trump’s fierce repression of immigration and protests, Madrid predicts.

While Latinos headed for Trump in 2024, despite the President’s promise of mass deportation, this threat is no longer “abstract” but “existential”, Madrid said. Moreover, more Americans are worried about the use of Trump by the military of their own people, he said.

“He overplayed his hand in immigration repression that it is now excessive, not the security of the borders,” Madrid said.

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